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We study holomorphic spheres in certain symplectic cobordisms and derive information about periodic Reeb orbits in the concave end of these cobordisms from the non-compactness of the relevant moduli spaces. We use this to confirm the strong…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Hansjörg Geiges , Kai Zehmisch

We show that any co-oriented closed contact manifold of dimension at least five admits a contact form such that the contact volume is arbitrarily small but the Reeb flow admits a global hypersurface of section with the property that the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Murat Sağlam

We prove that there exists at least one close orbit in a given contact hypersurface in some symplectic manifolds.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Renyi Ma

A long-standing conjecture in Hamiltonian Dynamics states that the Reeb flow of any convex hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ carries an elliptic closed orbit. Two important contributions toward its proof were given by Ekeland in 1986 and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Miguel Abreu , Leonardo Macarini

We introduce the notion of asymptotically finitely generated contact structures, which states essentially that the Symplectic Homology in a certain degree of any filling of such contact manifolds is uniformly generated by only finitely many…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Alexander Fauck

The first result of this paper is that every contact form on $\mathbb{R} P^3$ sufficiently $C^\infty$-close to a dynamically convex contact form admits an elliptic-parabolic closed Reeb orbit which is $2$-unknotted, has self-linking number…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Umberto L. Hryniewicz , Pedro A. S. Salomão

In this article, we study the dynamical properties of Reeb vector fields on b-contact manifolds. We show that in dimension 3, the number of so-called singular periodic orbits can be prescribed. These constructions illuminate some key…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Josep Fontana-McNally , Eva Miranda , Cédric Oms , Daniel Peralta-Salas

The periodic orbit conjecture states that, on closed manifolds, the set of lengths of the orbits of a non-vanishing vector field all whose orbits are closed admits an upper bound. This conjecture is known to be false in general due to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Robert Cardona

We introduce a direct generalization of the Weinstein conjecture to closed, Lichnerowicz exact, locally conformally symplectic manifolds, (for short $\lcs$ manifolds). This conjectures existence of certain 2-curves in the manifold, which we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Yasha Savelyev

We draw connections between the field of contact topology and the study of Beltrami fields in hydrodynamics on Riemannian manifolds in dimension three. We demonstrate an equivalence between Reeb fields (vector fields which preserve a…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 J. Etnyre , R. Ghrist

There are two long-standing conjectures in Hamiltonian dynamics concerning Reeb flows on the boundaries of star-shaped domains in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ ($n \geq 2$). One conjecture states that such a Reeb flow possesses either $n$ or infinitely…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Xiaorui Li , Hui Liu , Wei Wang

We study Reeb dynamics on the three-sphere equipped with a tight contact form and an anti-contact involution. We prove the existence of a symmetric periodic orbit and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for it to bound an invariant…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Seongchan Kim

In this article, we study the growth rate of Reeb orbits on fiberwise star-shaped hypersurfaces in the cotangent bundle of a closed manifold. We prove that under a suitable topological condition on the base manifold the Reeb flow on any…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Rafael Fernandes , Joao Pering

We prove the following three results in Hamiltonian dynamics. 1. The Weinstein conjecture holds true for every displaceable hypersurface of contact type. 2. Every magnetic flow on a closed Riemannian manifold has contractible closed orbits…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Urs Frauenfelder , Felix Schlenk

Consider a symplectic surface in a three-dimensional contact manifold with boundary on Reeb orbits (periodic orbits of the Reeb vector field). We assume that the rotation numbers of the boundary Reeb orbits satisfy a certain inequality, and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Michael Hutchings

A contact manifold admittting a supporting contact form without contractible Reeb orbits is called hypertight. In this paper we construct a Rabinowitz Floer homology associated to an arbitrary supporting contact form for a hypertight…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Matthias Meiwes , Kathrin Naef

A long standing conjecture in Hamiltonian Dynamics states that every contact form on the standard contact sphere $S^{2n+1}$ has at least $n+1$ simple periodic Reeb orbits. In this work, we consider a refinement of this problem when the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Miguel Abreu , Hui Liu , Leonardo Macarini

In this article, we answer-for a class of magnetic systems-a question now known as the contact type conjecture, whose origin trace back to the 1998 work of Contreras, Iturriaga, Paternain, and Paternain. For a broad class of magnetic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Lina Deschamps , Levin Maier , Tom Stalljohann

The first two authors showed in~\cite{AM1} how the Conley-Zehnder index of any contractible periodic Reeb orbit of a non-degenerate toric contact form on a good toric contact manifold with zero first Chern class, i.e. a Gorenstein toric…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Miguel Abreu , Leonardo Macarini , Miguel Moreira

We show that the presence of a non-contractible one-periodic orbit of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a connected closed symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ implies the existence of infinitely many non-contractible simple periodic orbits,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Ryuma Orita